Workflow Task

[PreetiGupta]

Hi,

This should be such a common use case where same person is needed to approve in multiple roles. Right now Windchill sends unique assignments per role. If the person is required to approve in three different roles then he has to approve three individual assignments.

Is there a way we can somehow manipulate Windchill so that it only delivers one assignment for above scenario?

Thanks,
Preeti

[AL_ANDERSON]

You could write a workflow expression robot just prior to the task that
evaluates all participants for the roles in the workflow, and then strips
out duplicates. You would need to pick which priority of roles get left as
the one-role.

If you needed to remember that that one role is also playing two other
roles, then you could add that information to a variable that you can tack
on to that person's comments on a task complete transition in the task.

Unfortunately, I can think of no way to make the system give one single
task that essentially represents some N number of tasks, and that posts
the results and comments from that one task back out to each of those same
N tasks on task compelte.

Al Anderson






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Hi,

This should be such a common use case where same person is needed to
approve in multiple roles. Right now Windchill sends unique assignments
per role. If the person is required to approve in three different roles
then he has to approve three individual assignments.

Is there a way we can somehow manipulate Windchill so that it only
delivers one assignment for above scenario?

Thanks,
Preeti


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[avillanueva]

Since role is a field on the WorkItem, I do not think the assignment or
notification can be limited to one without loosing the information about
the other roles. I was think in my case it would be helpful when the
user signs for one, to have it complete the others as well. It does not
reduce the emails or assignments in the list but leaves open the
possibility to have they sign uniquely. A checkbox would trigger it to
complete the other WorkItems while approving the current one they are
on.

[RussPratt]

While I realize the technical "how to" nature of this question, it seriously begs a much more fundamental question, "Has the core business process been evaluated for efficiency and effectivity?" There is something fundamentally flawed in a process that requires multiple role approvals, but then allows the same individual to perform them.

Russ